Chinon Parchment

Between approximately 17 and 20 August 1308, those commissioners questioned the senior leadership individually.

including Jacques de Molay, Raymond de Caron, Hugues de Perrault, Geoffroy de Gonville, and Geoffroy de Charney, and the surviving record of those proceedings is what has become famous as the Chinon Parchment.

The document became widely known in modern scholarship after Vatican archivists and paleographer Barbara Frel identified the relevant parchment in the Vatican archives in 2001, although related evidence concerning the Chinon proceedings had long been known from other archival material.

What the parchment records is extremely important, but it also has been abused almost as badly as the Baphomet legend itself, especially in the sensational internet version claiming that the Vatican secretly discovered the Templars were innocent and then covered up the evidence for 700 years.